![]() ![]() Why? Well, you know that your desktop printer has four colors of ink: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CYMK). On the other hand, in print, you want the image file that goes off to the printer to be as high quality (that is to say, large) as possible, while in an ebook, every kilobyte costs you (I’ll explain how below).Īs someone who’s been around the publishing industry for a long time, this conundrum was one of the hardest things for me to wrap my head around when I first started creating ebooks: that using color wasn’t verboten.Īs you probably know, printing a book using even a single color image often more than doubles the production cost of the book.In a print book, color is expensive, while in an ebook beautiful color costs (essentially) the same as black and white.However, there are two enormous differences between the image files you want to use in an ebook and ones you’re going to get printed on paper: You’re going to crop the picture (cutting out any extraneous bits) and enhance it (or get someone who knows how to do so) so that it looks beautiful. Well, in either case, you’re going to start by finding the perfect picture to go with your words. There’s one big difference, however: where the advice that I gave you about getting your text squeaky clean was equally valid for preparing to convert your words to either print or ebook format, these suggestions are ebook-only. This time I’m going to be looking at how to do the same thing with images. Last month I discussed how to clean up your manuscript to prepare it for ebook conversion. ![]()
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